#USA AOL cofounder on Mark Zuckerberg the merger from hell and tech’s future

// Steve_case

Feed-twFeed-fb

Nearly a decade ago, AOL cofounder Steve Case was at a conference when a promising young entrepreneur “sheepishly” approached him to share how Case had unintentionally helped turn him into a coder.

As Case recalled in a recent interview, the man approached him and said: “I just want you to know that I learned to program when I was 13-years-old by hacking into the AIM system.”

The coder was none other than Mark Zuckerberg, then in his early 20s and running a fast-growing startup called Facebook. 

“He mentioned the hacking group he was part of and I actually remembered the name. They were one of the most notorious ones,” Case recalled in an interview this week on Mashable‘s Biz Please podcast, which you can listen to below or download on iTunes or Stitcher. “We had a team of people trying to protect us from people like Mark. but we were glad we could give him some experience in [his] early days of coding.” Read more…

More about Startups, Mark Zuckerberg, Aol, and Business

from Startups http://ift.tt/1WHHmLm

This entry was posted in #USA by Startup365. Bookmark the permalink.

About Startup365

Chaque jour nous vous présenterons une nouvelle Startup française ! Notre pays regorge de talents et d'entrepreneurs brillants ! Alors partons à la découverte des meilleures startup françaises ! Certaines d'entre elles sont dans une étape essentielle dans la vie d'une startup : la recherche de financement, notamment par le financement participatif (ou crowdfunding en anglais). Alors participez à cette grande aventure en leur faisant une petite donation ! Les startups françaises ont besoin de vous !